Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, …read more Continue reading IPV4, IPV6… Hey! What Happened to IPV5?
If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, …read more Continue reading IPV4, IPV6… Hey! What Happened to IPV5?
You’ve doubtless seen those ubiquitous clock modules, especially when setting clocks for daylight savings time. You know the ones: a single AA battery, a wheel to set the time, and …read more Continue reading Clock Mechanism Goes Crazy for Arduino
Small cylindrical parts are often formed through deep drawing — a process by which a punch forms the finished piece from a flat sheet of metal using a forming die. …read more Continue reading Deep Drawing with Ultrasonics
Movies mirror the time they were made. [ErnieTech] asserts that we can see what people thought about computers back in 1957 by watching the classic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn movie “Desk …read more Continue reading Fictional Computers: EMERAC was the Chatbot of 1957
[MSylvain59] likes to tear down old surplus, and in the video below, he takes apart a German transceiver known as a U-600M. From the outside, it looks like an unremarkable …read more Continue reading Transceiver Reveals Unusual Components
What’s that smell? If you can’t tell, maybe a new laser system from CU Bolder and NIST can help. The device is simple and sensitive enough to detect gasses at …read more Continue reading This Laser Knows about Gasses
There was a time when the line between typewriters and word processing software was a bit fuzzy. [Poking Technology] found a Xerox 6040 which can’t decide what it is. It …read more Continue reading Tearing Down a Vintage Word Processor
We used to say that fixing something was easier than bringing up a design for the first time. After all, the thing you are fixing, presumably, worked at one time …read more Continue reading Repairing a 1955 Classic Radio
If you think about military crypto machines, you probably think about the infamous Enigma machine. However, as [Christos T.] reminds us, there were many others and, in particular, the production …read more Continue reading Combined Crypto, Anglo-American Style